overlay.el bug, incompatable overlays-in

[It's me FKtPp ;)]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> It's me FKtPp ;) writes:
>
>  > A branch of test shows that GNU's overlays- function can accept any
>  > integer as BIG or END parameter -_-
>
> [[ *sigh* I really detest that style of programming.  No wonder the
> overlays emulation is deprecated. ]]
>
>  > attachment is a changed overlay.el that with above 3 #'functions emulate
>  > the GNU's behavior.
>
> Please submit it to XEmacs Patches as a patch against the Mercurial
> repository.  It will get faster review that way, at least from me.
> You may also wish to put a copy on the tracker (this kind of thing
> will eventually be done automatically but that is not implemented
> yet).
>   

I've created one with my two mail pasted in.

> I can tell you already that (1) the docstrings *need* to be amended to
> describe the DWIM behavior, and (2) I'm almost certainly going to ask
> that the normalization of arguments (null BUFFER -> current buffer,
> truncating bounds and reordering them) be refactored as a defsubst.
>
> Thanks!
>   

What about this attached patch?
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